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A sense of seclusion is given the house by its walled entrances g 
of unusual rarity. In the top of the back is carved a shell, 
and the framework swells in graceful lines that please and 
refresh the eye even as they invite to relaxation the body. 
This sofa has its double in one which occupies an honored 
place in Washington’s headquarters at Morristown. In 
the enclosed end of the library a mantelpiece of very beauti- 
ful Colonial type imparts the 
delicacy of Colonial outline 
and white woodwork to the 
room and, at the same time, 
diffuses the glow of rare 
brasses; of an old English 
brazier and candlesticks, 
supplemented by the bloom 
of antique copper candle- 
sticks from Vernona, Italy. 
Iere “and “there “in this 
spacious room of easy chairs 
and hospitably large center- 
table, the warm gleam of old 
mahogany finds a sparkling 
complement where light 
falls upon some rare piece of 
brass or silver; a touch of 
contrasting color in the 
Brower pottery and in other 
bits of fatence, and, so sur- 
rounded by objects mellowed 
in the crucible of Time, it 
diffuses an essence of rest- 
fulness and inspires the feel- 
ing that in entering upon 
this scene of the tranquil past 
one leaves without the 
threshold the hurry of the 
present. 
Subtly the impression is 
conveyed of an harmonious 
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The gateway in the wall reminds 
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arrangement of the 
draperies at win- 
dows and doorways. 
Of gichwand ene 
simplicity, they pos- 
Siesis tile a didkerd 
charm of unobtru- 
sively supplying a 
needed accent of 
color here, a soft- 
ness of outline there, 
without attracting 
attention to them- 
selves. The leading from cream-white paneling and finish 
upon the drawing-room floor to wainscoting in squares that 
cover the entire wall of the upper hall where twin stairways 
converge, suggests an effect of ascending to greater delicacy 
and increasing light in the arrangement of the floor above. 
Just at the foot of these stairs, next to the library, is a 
dining-room that represents enchanted land to a collector, 
so full is it of antiques in furniture, silver, china and cut 
glass. It is an oblong room with windows looking upon 
the shrubbery-filled terrace in front of the house and the 
forest-covered slope of Vauxhall Mountain beyond, -and 
opening upon the large outdoor living-room, which, with its 
glass enclosure, forms a delightful sunroom in the winter 
season. ‘The entrance to this living-room is flanked on one 
side by a glass-paned Hepplewhite cabinet filled with crystal, 
and on the other by another cabinet, of the same make, con- 
taining rarities in china and in silver. A graceful little three- 
legged tabouret shares honors with a serving table of the 
same style of Hepplewhite, and the least impressionable 
person could not remain insensible to the charm exerted by 
the beautifully modeled oval dining-table with its comple- 
ment of fiddle-backed chairs that represent probably the 
most attractive type of all chairs of the Georgian period. 
Against the wall opposite: the sunroom stands one of 
Sheraton’s finest examples of a sideboard. Swelling sides 
conceal curious wine bottle 
drawers; inlaid front panels 
exhibit an urn decoration, 
and the whole has been ex- 
quisitely adorned with paint- 
ings by Angelica Kauffman 
and Amelia Kutner. Not 
the smallest attraction about 
this interesting sideboard is 
its treasure of fine Shefheld 
plate, the rare crystal and 
cut glass upon it. From this 
one’s gaze naturally turns to 
an Elizabethan shelf against 
the wall on which are won- 
derful Bogardus and Spode 
plates, a Sunderland cup of 
the date 1793, examples of 
old Chelsea, Staffordshire, 
Wedgewood and _ ancient 
French ware, articles of 
which are repeated else- 
where in the dining-room, 
and rivaled by quaint old 
bow china figures. Beverly 
Betts candlesticks, of early 
Nieuw Yorke days, and in- 
teresting old pewter upon 
the high Colonial mantel. 
One discovers the charmi of 
novelty combined with a 
high decorative quality in 
Second-story plan 
one of some old-world nook 
